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WINNETKA TALK February 5, 1927 Re lly News of the North Shore Clubs Woman's Club to Conduct Institute Illinois Federation Plans Attractive Luncheon and Institute Program for February 9 To the Club institute to be con- ducted by the Tenth District of the Illinois Federation of Woman's clubs on Wednesday, February 9, a number of local clubs will send representatives. The institute is to be held at the North End club at 1:30 o'clock in the after- noon, and the federation has extended a cordial invitation to all club women to attend the luncheon and institute. The North Shore clubs that will be participating are the Woman's club of Wilmette, the Neighbors of Kenilworth, the Winnetka Woman's club, the Wo- man's Library club of Glencoe, the North Shore Catholic Woman's league, the Woman's Catholic club of Wil- mette and, the Friends in Council of Evanston. Mrs. William F. Farrell, who is president of the district, is to preside at the meeting, and the program in- cludes talks on interesting and vital subjects. One of the outstanding features of the program is to be the question box, and Mrs. George W. Plummer, who is in charge of the box, will answer ques- tions of any club problems. Mrs. Plummer, state parliamentarian, will give a talk on "Standardization." The subject, "Committees." will be pre- sented by Mrs. Samuel Snow, presi- dent of the Ninth District. Mrs. Snow is known as an authority on her sub- ject. Mrs. Clarence Goodwin appears on the program as speaker of note and well qualified to handle her im- portant topic. She will speak on "Finances." Luncheon will precede the program and will be served at 12 o'clock. Infant Welfare Society Holds Annual Meeting At the regular monthly meeting of the Wilmette Senior board of the Infant Welfare society, January 27, with Mrs. J. W. Cullen, Ashland ave., Mrs. I. K. Stover, chairman of the board, told of the annual luncheon of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago, which was held at the Palmer House, January 26. Prof. G. T. Stafford of the Universi- ty of Illinois spoke before the 900 women who attended this annual meet- ing. He urged greater interests in the health habits formed by children in schools and in the educational program for parents. Prof. Stafford declared that 90 per cent of the college students suffer some physical defect and the defect could be corrected by educating the small children in regard to their health. TO READ TO CIRCLE The Scott Avenue circle will meet at 2 o'clock, Tuesday, February 8, with Mrs. Edward P. Farwell, 1206 As- bury avenue. Mrs. Charles Sweet and Mrs. Robert Hammond will assist the hostess. Mrs. Frederick Dickinson will entertain the group by readings at 4 o'clock. Those unable to attend early are invited to come later. The Willow Street circle will meet Tuesday, February 8, with Mrs. Mil- "dred B. Mershon, 511 Willow street. 'Mrs. N. H. Weber and Mrs. A. C. Bra- dy will assist. Taj Mahal Garden to Be Duplicated at Garden Show "Gardening; this is an art which does mean nature, Change it rather But the art itself is nature." --Shakespeare When the bard of Avon penned the above words he spelled the keynote of the Chicago Flower and Garden show to be held at the Hotel Sherman March 7 to 12, inclusive, and for which north shore clubs are busy in making exten- sive preparations. The show includes a "Garden of the Maharajah," replica of the exquisite garden flanking the Taj Mahal; a bulb garden, rose, rock, water, tropic, French, Italian, Spanish, wild flower and also one that will recall old mem- ories--a grandmother's garden with its hollyhocks, zinnias, phlox, with sun- flowers peeping over the wall. At the meeting of the committee in chafge of the plans, three Winnetka women, members of the local club, were in attendance, Mrs. Charles Strong, Mrs. Rush Butler and Mrs. James Prindeville. is meeting was held at 2:30 o'clock, Wednesday, Feb- ruary 2, at the Hotel Sherman. At the next meeting of the Winnetka club, to be held Thursday, February 17, the matter will be presented to the members. Mrs. Rudolph Matz of Sheridan road, Hubbard Woods, will be hostess to the club at this time. The clubs are planning for the com- petitions for clubs that have been announced, one in table decoration and one in floral arrangement. The table decoration means that each club com- peting is to provide three decorations for the table during the show, one to be exhibited every other day. The other entry is to be a basket or vase, to be displayed in shadow boxes light- ed and lined with black. Art Committee Plans Winnetka Club Meeting The next meeting of the Winnetka Woman's club, will be held on Tuesday, February 15, at 2:30 o'clock, when the art and literature committee, Mrs. Ernest S. Ballard, chairman, will have charge of the program. Miss Kate Watkins Tibbals, who has been conducting a class in imaginative writing, will read some of the work of her class. Hostesses for the day will be Mrs. Edwin R. Keeler, Mrs. Robert McKis- son, Mrs. Francis W. Parker, Mrs. Roger Sherman, Mrs. Warren W. Shoemaker and Mrs. Charles R. Strong. Circle to Entertain The Indian Hill circle is departing from its usual custom of holding a reg- ular business meeting, and is going to make its next gathering an "old- fashioned costume" party. The circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Frank Root of 470 Sunset road, Wednesday, February 9. Mrs. G. J. Nickel will act as assisting hostess. The Johanna North Shore committee will meet on Thursday, February 10, at 12:30 o'clock, at the Moraine hotel, Highland Park. Mrs. Nat A. Mayer will be hostess. ---- The Winnetka Heights circle will meet with Mrs. Edwin E. Brown, 1045 Dinsmore road, at 2 o'clock, Friday, February 11. Dudley Craft Watson to Be Art League Speaker The next meeting of the North Shore Art league, will take place in the Highland Park school, Friday, Feb- ruary 25, when Dudley Craft Watson will be the principal speaker of the evening. Mr. Watson, widely known in this country, will address members of the league and guests on "Modern Art--Is There A Reason for Its Be- ing?" Aside from the talk to be made by Mr. Watson, several exhibitions will be given of work done by Frank Pey- raud, Rudolph Ingerle, James Cady Ewell and William R. Watson, all resi- dents of Highland Park and members of the league. Their work will be most interesting for many of the pieces were done in the summer of 1926. The Chicago stringed quartette will also furnish part of the program, giv- ing several numbers. Political School to Hold Banquet and Luncheons Mrs. C. P. Evans, president of the Wilmette League of Women Voters, is to be in charge of the luncheons at the Georgian hotel arranged for each noon on the days of the political in- stitute being sponsored by the Illinois league and Northwestern university, and Mrs. John N. VanderVries, presi- dent of the Winnetka League of Wo- men Voters, is in charge of the banquet being given at that hotel the evening of March 3. At this banquet both men and women will be present, and speak- ers and guests of honor will be chosen from among those present at the three day session. An Institute of Government and Pol- itics is the name applied to the ses- sions which will be held March 2, 3 and 4. Catholic League to Tour Chicago Historical Society Members of the North Shore Cath- olic Women's league, instead of hold- ing their customary afternoon meeting at the Winnetka Woman's club, will hold their session at the rooms of the Chicago Historical society, Tuesday, February 8, and be personally conduct- ed through the exhibitions by Miss Macllvaine of the society. Arrange- ments were made almost a year ago for this tour. The society's building is located on Dearborn and Ontario streets, and the group will meet here. The book talk given by Mrs. An- thony French Merrill took place this past week for members of the league and others interested in the course. TALKS TO CIRCLE Mrs. Gross T. Williams, of the Speakers' Bureau of the Winnetka League of Women Voters, spoke on "The Women's Reformatory" at a meeting of the Ash Street circle, Tues- day, February 1, at the home of Mrs. Carlton Prouty, of 693 Willow road. The February meeting of the Lincoln Avenue circle will be held at the home of Mrs. John R. Montgomery, 15 Green Bay road, Monday, February 7. There will be sewing at 10:30 o'clock. Luncheon will be served at 1 o'clock. Members are asked to notice the change in the date. Nursery School's New Board Meets Mrs. Walter T. Fisher and Mrs. Alschuler Co-Chairmen of Executive Board A first meeting of the new executive committee of the Nursery school board was called Tuesday morning, February 1, at 11 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Arthur W. Cushman, 779 Bry- ant avenue, to discuss plans for the school for which 'the Winnetka Wo- man's club is raising funds. Mrs. Alschuler, as supervisor of the Nur- sery school, and Mrs. Walter T. Fisher, as representative of the Woman's club, are co-chairmen of the executive com- mittee. Mrs. George D. Smith is secretary, and Mrs. Alfred Freeman, treasurer. The other members of the committee are: Mrs. Arthur Cushman, president of the Winnetka Woman's club; Mrs. S. George Levy, chairman of the edu- cation committee of the Winnetka Woman's club; Mrs. James F. Porter, Mrs. Benjamin F. Affleck, Mrs. Frank Bersbach, Mrs. Robert Brown, Mrs. John Brown, Mrs. Emmons Blaine, Jr. Mrs. Earnest Ballard, Mrs. Nathaniel Blatchford, Mrs. Morton Cohen, Mrs. Lawrence Cole, Mrs. Dudley K. French, Miss Augusta Feager, Mrs. Montague Ferry, Mrs. Harold Ickes, Mrs. Myron T. Harshaw, Mrs. T. Mil- ton, Mrs. William D. McKenzie, Mrs. Walter Strong, Mrs. Ralph Snyder, Mrs. Willoughby Walling, Miss Ruth Matz, Mrs. Dudley Palmer and Mrs. Samuel Greeley. Mrs. Alschuler defined the objectives of the Nursery school as habit forma- tion, parent education and research work. The school will be a training center using girls from the National Kindergarten and Elementary college. Miss Spake is to be in charge of the school. The budget for this year has been fixed at $4500 of which sum the committee already has on hand, $1700. Mr. Carleton W. Washburne, super- intendent of the Winnetka public schools, spoke at the meeting. To Mr. Washburne the primary interest is that of research with the opportunity offer- ed for careful, measured, experimenta- tion to see what is best for the child and to know more about the child be- fore he reaches the public school age. The board of education has made a room available in the Greeley school for the sixteen children the school will accommodate. To Hold Conference North shore club women who are interested in public welfare work or who are associated with organizations devoted to this activity will be glad to learn of the Public Welfare confer- ence which the Woman's club of Wil- mette is planning to hold on Wednes- day, February 9. The conference is to be an all-day affair, and will be held at the clubhouse. 1 Luncheon will be served at 1 o'clock. Reservations are being made with Mrs. Robert B. Taylor, Wilmette 2833, and Mrs. C. P. Berg, Wilmette 1928, and cannot be accepted after February 7. The regular card meeting of the North Shore British American club will take place Thursday, February 10, at the Community House, Winnetka. oH WNT